PiAware SkyView output to HDMI

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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Hi @catman393, for us to help more can you describe a bit more what you are trying to achieve.

Do you want to be ‘headless’ but have a screen with the map? Then you are semi-headless and connect only a screen in which case you have a full desktop that can be displayed including skyview and other pages.

Full Image:

  • You use a full image with a desktop and view skyview in the browser on any HDMI connected screen. Just connect a screen to hdmi, add a mouse and key board temporarily, launch the browser from the desktop, connect to skyview and put it in fullscreen. Remove the mouse and keyboard. You don’t need the LCD image unless you want the special status screen.

  • Or you can connect via VNC from another device and see the piaware desktop in a window and launch skyview and the local stats pages in the window. Then you are headless but can access SkyView locally.

Here is that example (running in VNC as my device is remote, running a std image, but I could have just connected straight to HDMI). If I press F11 the browser will be full screen and I can set this to autostart if needed.

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LCD Image

  • The SPI LCD image is for a status display (see my posts on rotating it LCD Rotation). It is a set of predefined icons, buttons plus some readouts from the underlying files.

  • As an experiment I enabled VNC on the headless Pi with the LCD image and you get the status screen in the window. Which actually I am very happy I tried and am surprised it worked. But it shows that there is only one display output on this image which is the LCD status screen.

piawarelcdandvnc
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Future:

  • in theory we can go to advanced/experimental options on the pi, turn on dual display (by default the Pi sends video to only one display at a time, hence when you boot the lcd image with the hdmi connected you get command line output for a while then it flips to the lcd). Then maybe we can get the status on the LCD and the map on HDMI. I have not tried this yet though and I don’t think that this was what you are asking.

and as you know you can connect to skyview via the flightaware pages remotely from any other computer.

Hope that helps,

And let us know the combination you prefer and we can try advise more.